Listening to Mr. President. I've been hoping for sixty years that at some point I could warm to the score, but it's just so mediocre - I'm not sure it's Irving's fault - it's just a terrible idea for a musical and Irving's doing it by rote - some nice melodies, but so much of it just doesn't land - the opening of the show is terrible - in fact, the only number that truly lands is the only one I liked when I was thirteen - The Secret Service. Lang's orchestrations are working overtime to make something of it, but for naught, I'm afraid.